Marxism-Leninism

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The concept of Marxism-Leninism arose in the Soviet Union in the mid-1920s, in connection with Stalin's formulation of Leninism as the further development of Marxism. In 1926 Marxism and Leninism were declared equivalent components of the Soviet philosophy. In the following years, the term became generally accepted as the official designation of the Soviet philosophy and of state orthodoxy. Marxis…